Tracks, Scats, and Other Traces: A Field Guide to Australian Mammals

This book contains hundreds of illustrations and is organized in an accessible format for easy identification of the visible traces left by Australian mammals in their passage. Triggs provides all the information needed to identify mammals anywhere in Australia, using only the tracks or other signs these animals leave behind.

This is an indispensable guide for bushwalkers, naturalists, students, zoologists, and other professionals -- in fact, it will appeal to anyone who ever wanted a better understanding of Australia's unique mammal fauna.

From inside the book

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Page 79BATS There are about sixty species of bats in Australia. They are divided into two
main groups: Megachiroptera, or megabats, which includes the fruit-eating flying-
foxes and others that feed on nectar and pollen; and Microchiroptera, ...

Page 177Key to Scats No 4, Plate 26, page 95 BATS Large bats, such as the flying-foxes,
produce scats that accumulate on the ground at their camps, forming a shapeless
mass. Firm scats are occasionally produced, but generally the soft fruit in the ...

Page 241BATS Shelters Bats do not construct any form of shelter, but make use of natural,
or sometimes artificial, cover. The megabats generally roost in dense vegetation.
Flying- foxes roost in the branches of large trees in forests or mangroves.

About the author (2004)

Barbara Triggs has lived in the bush, among the mammals she writes about, since 1972. An authority on the identification of mammalian traces, she is the author of several natural history books. Mammal Tracks and Signs won the Whitley Award for the Best Field Guide in 1984.